Charles Wagner

* Esztergom, July 3, 1830 – † Budapest, July 26, 1909 / chemist, academic teacher, corresponding member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (1889) ; ; In 1856 he received his doctorate from the University of Vienna. In 1859 he became a chemistry teacher at the Košice Higher Real School, and in 1867 at the Keszthely Higher Institute of Economics. From there he was invited to become a teacher at the Selmecbánya Mining and Forestry Academy in 1870, where he was the head of the chemistry and natural science department until 1872, and then the head of the general and elementary chemistry department until his retirement (1892). He invented a perfected lead accumulator with his fellow teacher István Farbaky. His paper on second-order galvanic cells (1885) was awarded the Marczibányi Prize by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. Several important studies were published in the Mining and Metallurgical Journals: Spectral Analysis, 1871, On Szomolnok Cement Waters, 1880, On Electric Batteries (with István Farbaky), 1885. ; ; His Main Works: ; Experimental Data on the Operation of Batteries, 1890.